Instead of open core I’ll call this popular approach “open skin”.
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486@lemmy.world 1 year agoPerhaps the hard dependency was a mistake, but not them moving more and more code to their proprietary library. It appears that their intent is to make the client mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library, so they can still claim to have an open source GPLv3 piece of software.
nadir@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
I’m not familiar with exactly what Bitwarden are doing, but Nvidia are doing something similar to what you described with their Linux GPU drivers. They launched new open-source drivers for Turing (GTX 16 and RTX 20 series) and newer GPUs. What they’re actually doing is moving more and more functionality to the closed-source firmware. Maybe that’s okay? I’m not sure how I feel about it.